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 * Affinity Spaces. ** Affinity spaces are those online and/or offline interactive spaces comprising people held together either loosely or tightly by means of shared activities, interests, and goals (Gee, 2004). As an assignment in this course, I analyzed a Fanfiction.net site on Jane Eyre. Fascinating…and I will return.
 * Anime. ** Ah-ni-may can be equated roughly with ‘animated manga’ since a lot of anime is influenced by artistic styles and storylines found in manga comics.
 * Bert is Evil meme. **Provides a good example of anomalous juxtaposition (c. 2001). This meme was spawned by an actual event. It began with a photograph of the muppet, Bert, …being photoshopped into a picture of Osama bin Laden and uploaded as a joke to an online photoshopper forum. The image was subsequently downloaded and used in Bangladesh on street march banners by supporters of Osama…the banner creators seemingly either did not notice Bert in the picture they downloaded or did not know who Bert was. This prompted further ‘Bert’ remix images that added ‘evidence’ to the claim that Bert was indeed evil…